Jessie Matthews

On stage 2 productions, 5 years

1924	Andre Charlot’s Revue Of 1924 Times Square Theatre · Original · directed by Andre Charlot	298 perf.
1929	Wake Up and Dream Selwyn Theatre · Original · directed by Hassard Short	136 perf.

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Worked with more than once3 names

Wyn Clare	2 productions
Marjorie Brooks	2 productions
Jack Buchanan	2 productions

Both names in the same cast list, more than once. It is not evidence of a partnership. A long-running company puts the same forty people together every night, but it is where one would start looking. 2 of these names are not links because we hold no record behind them; the name is set from the identifier and its punctuation may be wrong.

In the literature8 passages

• Cast: Beatrice Lillie, Gertrude Lawrence, Jack Buchanan, Douglas Furber, Herbert Mundin, Jessie Matthews, Constance CarpenterBroadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell
• I think this is essential in understanding both works. In The Boy Friend we don’t look at Polly Browne and think Jessie Matthews, Sepha Treble, Binnie Hale. Polly is Polly , a sort of embodiment of something we can’t pin down to any individual. We have a vague idea that she is somehow typical of a 1920s heroine, even though some of them h…Tanner's Worth of Tune_ Rediscovering the post-war British Musical, A - Adrian Wright
• PC: Sally : Jessie Matthews; Maxie : Richard Hearne; Gaston de Frey : André Randall; Tom Blair : Frank Leighton; Rosie Roxie : Elsie Percival; Diamond Jim Brady : Jack Morrison; Lillian Russell : Linda GrayWest End Broadway_ The Golden Age of the American Musical in London - Adrian Wright
• young Jessie Matthews, understudying Gertie, was able to hnd much magic backstage: IGertrude Lawrence - Sheridan Morley
• not a great applause-getter. In the heat of a Broadway July she began to get tired of it; sending the costume up to Jessie Matthews in the understudies’Gertrude Lawrence - Sheridan Morley
• New York run ‘Parisian Pierrot’ was duly sung by Jessie Matthews. Early in September they finally closed at the Selwyn; business was stillGertrude Lawrence - Sheridan Morley

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